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Steve Jobs, An American Engineer And Entrepreneur

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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, an American engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and executive director of Apple Company, was born on February 24, 1955 in the town of Mountain View, California. He spent his childhood and youth in the family of the adoptive parents Paul and Clara Jobs. His biological parents – a Syrian immigrant Abdulfattah Jandali and an American student Joanne Carole Schieble – let to adopt the newborn baby. The main condition for adoption was the promise of the adoptive parents to provide the child with the higher education.
After graduating from high school in 1972, Steve Jobs became the student of the Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Captivated by the philosophy of Zen and Buddhism, Steve Jobs applied the principles of these teachings to all the spheres of this private and professional life. He dismissed the college after the first semester of studying and decided to attend the calligraphy courses. It gave him an idea to equip the operation system for the Macintosh computer with the scalable fonts. Then Steve took a job at Atari. His duty was to develop different computer games. Some years later Steve Jobs helped to establish the sales of the computers, which were developed by his friend Steve Wozniak.
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak became the founders of Apple Company. Steve Jobs persuaded Stephen Wozniak to refine the new scheme of the microcomputer, and thus gave rise to the emergence of the market of personal computers. The debut model of their
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